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PUERTO DELIVERS XL SWELL RUN IN JULY Posted July 25, 2017 The enticing, yet a fickle beast that is Puerto Escondido. Never has the divide between ride or beating of your life been so thin. Starring: Greg Long, Tom Lowe, Pedro Scooby, Red Dog, Ryan Seelbach, Nahuel Amalfitano, Angelo Lozano, Mikey O’Shauhnessy, Sebastian Gomez, Raul […]
An Interview with J-Bay’s Kamikaze Wave Pirate Posted July 24, 2017 Stab Magazine “I’ve never surfed a day in my life!” Recently we pointed to a vast disparity between the quantity and quality of ten-point rides at the Corona J-Bay Open. What we didn’t mention, however, was the ninth ten of the event. Technically the […]
KAI LENNY ON THE HYDROFOIL SURFING REVOLUTION Posted July 23, 2017 Magicseaweed Surfing might be on the cusp of its most profound change since the introduction of foam and polyester. Yes it is the hydrofoil, and no, it isn’t half as crazy or hyperbolic as it initially sounds. Spend 45 minutes with Kai Lenny and […]
KELLY SLATER BREAKS FOOT FREESURFING AT J-BAY Posted July 18, 2017 Magicseaweed “You ever folded your entire foot backward?” Kelly Slater posts to Instagram after doing some serious damage to his foot while free surfing at J-Bay. The champ was prepping for his upcoming round 3 heat in the WSL comp this morning. He pulled […]
MAKE AND BREAK AT SPICY MEXPIPE Posted July 14, 2017 Magicseaweed Puerto Escondido continues to pump. Over the course of July 8-10, a solid south swell rifled into Playa Zicatela, with some of the world’s elite big wave surfers on tap as Mexpipe served up prime beef. Your cast here, Fransico Porcella, Greg Long, Coco […]
THE FIVE MOST CROWDED WAVES IN THE WORLD Posted July 11, 2017 Magicseaweed Crowds. No one likes them. They are the reason we wake up early, surf past sunset, and travel halfway across the world to do the same thing we do at home. These days, just about everyone surfs—from the 10-year-old grom to the […]
Big Wave Hellman Jamie Mitchell Taken to the Hospital After a Bad Accident in Puerto Escondido Jamie Mitchell center takes his surfboard to the chest and survives what could have otherwise been very serious. Surrounded by Greg Long and Coco Nogalas, his spirit is high and he will have a full recovery. FB- Jamie Mitchell Posted […]
KOA ROTHMAN HIT IN HEAD BY SURFBOARD IN FRIGHTENING WIPEOUT, SWALLOWS HIS BROKEN TEETH Posted July 7, 2017 Surfer Koa Rothman says that he’s lucky to be alive after a bailed 10-foot board hit the side of his head while he surfed a remote Southern Hemi outer reef during a recent Surfline project. An […]
WSL Big Wave Awards Recent Submissions 2017/18 Plenty of ongoing action in South Africa, here’s Frank Solomon leaning into a nice Sunset left in Cape Town. Photo by Grant Scholtz. Isn’t this what we all want? Jeremy Johnson with some empty glassiness last week at Sunset in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by Grant Scholtz. […]
WELCOME TO REEF ROAD, NIC VON RUPP’S IMMERSIVE EXPLORATION OF INNERMOST SATISFACTION By Magicseaweed Posted July 4, 2017 “It’s about people like us who wander into the wild. We were over the whole me, me, me talk, I’m not that interesting,” said Nic of trying to do something a little different. “We chose a girl […]
FROM SKELETON BAY TO SUPERTUBES Posted July 1, 2017 SCORING NAMIBIA AND J-BAY IN THE SAME WEEK DURING JUNE’S SOUTH AFRICAN SUPERSTORM BY ALAN VAN GYSEN Surfer It’s every surfer’s dream to score one of the world’s best lefts and one of the world’s best rights, back to back, in the same week. And there […]
TOM BUTLERS HUGE NAZARE WIPEOUT – THINK BIGGER Posted July 1, 2017 Carvemag.com Tom Butlers farking scary story of his Nazare wipeout during his WSL Big Wave Tour event. “Pushing for an invite into a Big Wave World Tour event was lots of fun and was my goal for about 2 years. Being part of […]
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